Islamic activists

updated Mon. March 12, 2018

The most important part of my Muslim identity is the precedence of Islamic philosophy in the way that I perceive this world and everything in it. A huge part of this philosophy is the concept of justice, righteousness, mercy, and all things good that we owe to ourselves and to one another for the sake of peace.

Eltahawy, now a renowned Muslimfeminist writer and activist, kept this story to herself for years. But in 2013, she broke taboo and discussed it live on Egyptian television. In February, she used the hashtag #MosqueMeToo to invite other Muslims to break their silence about abuse in Islamic religious spaces.

As a fashion activist, designer, and MIT Media Lab Director's Fellow, I study the relationship between fashion, politics, and social change. Many things about fashion ... Last week I wrote a piece asking why journalists have not questioned Serre more about her use of Islamic imagery. I was angry with the lackÃÂ ...

Shuman's statements were another expression of the Al-Azhar institution's years-long cautious position on the issue of accusing Islamic terror organization activists of heresy, particularly the Islamic State (ISIS) - even though the latter has carried out many attacks against both Muslims and non-Muslims,ÃÂ ...

An Indonesian state Islamic university faced criticism this week after it barred female students from wearing full-face veils. University officials say the veils were banned because of fears over the spread of extremist ideology at the school. Many Muslim groups and activists object to the ban. They say theÃÂ ...

Concerns about the upcoming course and Bores being booked in an official capacity to train law enforcement were first raised by the Georgia chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). More so, as a P.O.S.T.-certified instructor, officers who attend Bores' courses are eligible to receiveÃÂ ...

In 2016, he was detained after enraged Malay Islamic activists lodged complaints that a video titled "Oh My God,'' which was filmed in front of various places of worship and used the word "Allah,'' which means God in the Malay language, was rude and disrespectful to Islam. He was not charged. In one ofÃÂ ...

Police have blamed homegrown Islamist extremist group Ansarullah Bangla Team -- also known as Ansar-al Islam and linked to Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent -- for most of the attacks. Bangladesh's government has provided security for top secular writers and activists since Islamist extremists namedÃÂ ...

UConn will host Linda Sarsour, a Muslim-American activist who was a co-chair of the 2017 Women's March, on March 7. While the official ... Additionally, Sarsour has also criticized women's activists Brigitte Gabriel and Ayaan Hirsi Ali, both victims of violent Islamic extremism. Hirsi Ali was forced to undergoÃÂ ...

The Mardi Gras festival provides the space to give the queer community a powerful voice. During the festival we can also hear diverse voices within the broader queer community. Queer Muslims were one of these diverse groups that made their voices heard with a special event on 16 February. SydneyÃÂ ...

Polygamy, frowned upon but legal under certain conditions in Indonesia, is increasing alongside the rise of conservative Islam in the Muslim-majority nation, activists say. "The issue is escalating as fundamentalism is on the rise," Azriana Manalu, who chairs the National Commission on Violence AgainstÃÂ ...

Driving down Warren Avenue, one sees a daily celebration of Islamicculture at spots like Shatila Bakery, a local landmark beloved for its little ... The ambitious project is a credit to Ijaz and her own activist parents, whom she witnessed take part in local elections, help build hospitals, and deliver refugee aid.

Maria Chin Abdullah, a prominent pro-democracy activist, says what's happening with the Lunar New Year decorations are "just small signs" of growing Islamic conservatism. "The secularism in our system that we enjoyed seems to be disappearing." As evidence, Chin pointed to the increasing frequencyÃÂ ...

Speaking at the protest, queer activist Lini Zurlia said it was the first in a series of protests against the revisions; the next one is planned for Wednesday. ... Although the most sensational part of the revisions has been the criminalization of various forms of sex (grouped together under the Islamic concept ofÃÂ ...

In the last week, Republican state representatives Kathy Lohmer and Cindy Pugh, and Dave Sina, the chairman of the Fourth Congressional districtGOP, shared a facebook post saying that a friend observed a caucus training session where Muslim-Americans were aiming to "infiltrate" RepublicanÃÂ ...

activists say she has since been released, but she still has not resurfaced in public. The protests, while small in number, are nevertheless significant as a rare public sign that dissatisfaction with certain Islamic laws governing personal conduct may have reached a tipping point in Iran. The first protest inÃÂ ...

Last month a Christian was publicly flogged for selling alcohol, making him only the third non-Muslim to suffer a public whipping under Aceh's Islamic law. human rights activists condemned the police roads on beauticians. "The authorities were arbitrarily targeting transgender people simply for who theyÃÂ ...

Accused of adhering to Shiism, Perlis' Islamicreligious Department, advised the state's schools two months prior to Amri's disappearance not to participate in programs managed by Perlis Hope, the charity co-founded by the activist. Perlis Hope was donating school bags and uniforms. The charity, inÃÂ ...

A French judge charged prominent Swiss Islamic academic scholar Tariq Ramadan with rape Friday and ordered him to remain in custody after two ... French activist and former Salafist Henda Ayari filed a police complaint last October accusing Ramadan of brutally raping her in a hotel room in 2012.

Prominent Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan will face a French investigating magistrate Friday after two days of questioning over claims by two women that he raped them in French hotel rooms in ... The first was made by Henda Ayari, a feminist activist who previously practised a conservative strain of Islam.

... think of Muslimwomen? There are notable hijab-wearing authors such as Tahereh Mafi, activists like Linda Sarsour, on-air personality Noor Tagouri, and bloggers including Dina Torkia. ... The activist Muslim is usually draped in an abaya or loose-fitting clothes and always with hijab. She can be foundÃÂ ...

At the other end of the ideological spectrum, Muslim campaign groups are reacting angrily to the idea that anything or anyone should impede the right of parents to dress their children as they see fit. In a ten-point argument against restricting the wearing of the hijab in primary schools an activist calledÃÂ ...

Tunggal Pawestri, a Feminist activist in Jakarta who helped launch the petition against the revised Criminal Code, said the best outcome would be if ... Indonesia is officially a multireligious state and has long avoided explicit sharia (Islamic law) in its federal laws, although sharia-inspired local bylaws haveÃÂ ...

"If you look at Islamic State activist videos, it's not just about recruiting in the West, it's about the activists proving to themselves that they are men." "The Believers Are But Brothers" is in essence a show about toxic masculinity in the internet age. But it documents it rather than explains it, and refuses to beÃÂ ...

activists say it would encroach on basic rights and could be misused to target the LGBT community. ... "It's sounding like the Acehnese sharia code," he added, referring to the ultra-conservative province at the northern tip of Sumatra island, which is the only Indonesian region to implement Islamic law.

Amidst the vitriol directed at me as a Palestinian Muslim-American activist, the hardest thing for me as a mother has been explaining to my beautiful, aware, Palestinian Muslim-American children why the country they love is banning people who look like them and share their faith from coming here. How do IÃÂ ...

Echoing the concerns of the Muslimactivists, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum, mayor of Tallahassee, one of two cities Corcoran has urged the Department of Homeland Security to investigate for maintaining "sanctuary policies," held an afternoon press conference to denounce theÃÂ ...

The first protest in December took place on a Wednesday and seemed connected to the White Wednesday campaign, an initiative by Masih Alinejad, an exiled Iranian journalist and activist living in the United States. Alinejad has reached out to Iranian women on Persian-language satellite television andÃÂ ...

IRF director Ahmad Farouk Musa says Muslims avoid thinking rationally out of fear that they could be going against teachings they consider as Islamic. ... Kuala Lumpur: Vocal activist Dr Ahmad Farouk Musa today said rational thinking should play a role in interpreting Islamic teachings, even if it meansÃÂ ...

Authorities have prosecuted nearly all activists associated with the Saudi Civil and Political rights Association (ACPRA), one of Saudi Arabia's first civic organizations, which called for broad political reform in interpretations of Islamic law. A Saudi court formally dissolved and banned the group in MarchÃÂ ...

The British government has appointed Sara Khan, a veteran counter-extremism campaigner, to head up its new "Commission for Countering Extremism," much to the objections of Islamist organizations. The commission is charged with advising the government on new policies, publicly challenging differentÃÂ ...

The school's hijab ban preceded last year's campaign by Muslim female activists against the headscarf in primary schools. women, including the government's new commissioner for countering extremism, Sara Khan, and Amina Lone, a former Labour parliamentary candidate, wrote to Justine GreeningÃÂ ...

The same troll group used another page, "United Muslims of America," to promote a "Save Islamic Knowledge" event at the same time. The Russian group ... Local activists were confused when they saw the event, as they had organized a protest outside the Minnesota Governor's Mansion. When an activistÃÂ ...

He told a gathering in Kabul of Afghan youths, women, civil society activists and clerics that fatwas issued under Islam have never been confined to ... The activist said she saw the participation of controversial clerics as part of alleged official efforts to mainstream extremist groups in national politics.

One of their justifications is that vaccinations are developed using products from "haram" animals like pigs and dogs. One of the leading anti-vax campaigners is Dewi Hestyawati, who calls herself a Holistic Islam Health Activist. She says diseases like diphtheria and polio can be warded off and treated withÃÂ ...

The Islamic Defenders Front said about 70 pages, including those of Islamic Defender Troops and Save Ulama, had been blocked. Muslim activist Slamet Maarif told ucanews.com on Jan. 12 that a complaint had been lodged with facebookIndonesia. He was among activists who in late 2016 protestedÃÂ ...

Gamis leader Faizzuddin Zai gives a speech at the Rise of the Ummah convention at the MalaysiaIslamic Centre, January 13, 2018. -- Picture by Miera ZulyanaKUALA LUMPUR, Jan 13 -- An activist from conservative youth group Gamis has blamed "K-Pop" for what he claimed was rampant "hedonism"ÃÂ ...

If anything, it has been revitalized by this failed experiment in Islamicgovernance, among everyone from young, disenfranchised professionals and activists in the Arab world to at least two generations of EuropeanMuslims, middle-class and marginalized alike, who feel increasingly alienated by societies inÃÂ ...

The Fajr, or "Dawn," campaign has set off a heated debate over whether it is appropriate to force religion on the masses. One leading religious scholar has even warned that it is un-Islamic to "annoy" people. Devout Muslims pray five times a day, and activists say they want to make sure that people catchÃÂ ...

One leading religious scholar has even warned that it is un-Islamic to "annoy" people. Devout Muslims pray five times a day, and activists say they want to make sure that people catch the first and most important of the prayers at their local mosques. After beginning in several Gaza City neighborhoods, theÃÂ ...

A group of teens attacked and called a Muslimwoman a terrorist in Brooklyn, New York at a local Panera Bread, police said. Souad Kirama, a local Muslim community activist, was having coffee with a friend inside the chain restaurant when the group of teenagers started "terrorizing" the second floor,ÃÂ ...

As the country approaches the anniversary of Mr Trump's first year in office, Ibrahim Hooper said such was the level of anxiety and apprehension, many Muslims were fearful to public display signs of their faith. A number of Muslimwomen, for instance, were deciding not to to appear in public wearing the veilÃÂ ...